I have come to realize that when you work in an Archives you are always asking questions about people or records of days gone by and just when you think that you’ve found the answers to those questions, you have at least two more questions that pop into your head! It seems to be a [...]Read Full Article →

Wheeling Gaunt, (Whelan Gant) was born about 1815 in Carrell County, Kentucky. As an African American being born south of the Ohio River during this period meant that Wheeling would have spent most of his life in slavery. Not much is known about Wheeling’s life before he came to Yellow Springs sometime after 1860. We [...]Read Full Article →